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"Yes, yes, of course," Cluny replied, with great eagerness, as if to justify the matter to himself. Gaston smiled, said that he might, he was only in town for a few days, and dropped Cluny in Pall Mall. Cluny came running back. "I say, Belward, things'll come around just as they were before, won't they? You're going to cut in, and not let 'em walk on you?" "Yes, I'm 'going to cut in, Cluny boy."

We've got to go under or they have. And we won't! I promise you that! Things'll break a little better before long, and I'll make it up to you." She could not see him in the blackness of the garret. She breathed a prayer of gratitude that he could not see her. Her face, in spite of Gipsy Nan's disguising grime, must be white, white as death itself.

"Better for me to chip the old man and keep him quiet than for Jarrow to give him fits." "And I'm as well satisfied that Mr. Peth is going to live in the forecastle, if that's a measure of his temper," said Trask, who was more annoyed by the mate's request than he allowed the Lockes to see. "I didn't like his looks from the first," said Marjorie. "Oh, things'll get shaken down," said Locke.

'Father, I shall have to give Mrs. Tubbs the five shillings for a few weeks. She's going to let me have a new dress. 'Your earnin's is your own, Clara. 'Yes; but I hope very soon to be able to give you something. It's hard for you, having no work. John brightened wonderfully. 'Don't you trouble, my dear. That's all right. Things'll come round somehow. You're a good girl.

Louis to New Orleans. I'd go a little slow about gettin' a girl like Lettie in here." "Oh, I can manage any girl on earth. Old maids and young things'll come flockin' round a man with money. Beats all." This much O'mie had overheard as the two talked together in tones none too low, in Judson's little cage of an office, forgetting the clerk arranging the goods for the night.

'Not very often, father, was the murmured answer. 'Well, well; things'll soon be set right. I feel quite proud of you, Janey; I do, indeed. And I suppose you just keep house for him, eh? 'I go to work as well. 'What? You go to work? How's that, I wonder? 'Didn't Miss Peckover tell you? Joseph laughed.

"There must be hearts still, and they'll see soon, and then things'll be different. Oh, yes, they must be different." It is but a narrow streak of silver main that separates the two countries, whose story has been that of constant mutual distrust, varied by intervals of armed truce, in which each nation elected to believe that it understood the other.

"And I've come back to lay my bones in Sunwich Churchyard," he concluded, pathetically; "that is, when I've done with 'em." "A lot of things'll happen before then," said Hardy. "I hope so," rejoined Mr. Nugent, piously; "my desire is to be buried by my weeping great-grandchildren. In fact, I've left instructions to that effect in my will all I have left, by the way."

I think things are pretty rotten," declared Harriett from the hearthrug. "Isn't it ghastly for all of us?" Miriam felt treacherously outspoken. It was a relief to be going away. She knew that this sense of relief made her able to speak. "It's never knowing that's so awful. Perhaps he'll get some more money presently and things'll go on again.

You've got to keep your eyes on your suitcase and your hand on your wallet when you sit down among civilized people, Smith." "Say, I guess you're right about that," admitted Smith after some reflection. "I read in the paper the other day that they're goin' to build three new battle-ships. Yes, I reckon things'll change here in this part of Wyoming now.